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Key Points USN is aggressively pursuing unmanned and autonomous technologies to hone a “decisive” competitive edge Estimating risk and co-ordinating integration with human elements are a challenge US lawmakers warned that the competitive advantage that the US military has eroded over the past few years, and increasing incorporation of unmanned systems in naval operational concepts…

At 7:10 a.m. Israeli time, sixteen Israeli Air Force Fouga Magister training jets took off and pretended to be what they were not. Flying routine flight paths and using routine radio frequencies, they looked to Arab radar operators like the normal morning Israeli combat air patrol. At 7:15 a.m., another 183 aircraft—almost the entire Israeli…

The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) recently received what appears to be its first shipment of “Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems” (LMAMs), confirming the combat value of this “Kamikaze” drone first deployed in the ongoing War in Afghanistan. The LMAMs delivered to USSOCOM is the “AeroVironment Switchblade” developed by California-based AeroVironment, Inc. This 2.7…

New Delhi – Indian Navy wants three variants of the underwater vessel namely for detection/inspection, combat and training role. In fact, the Navy will purchase five underwater vehicles which may go up later. The purchase order is expected to be approximately $95 million: half of the total deal amount has to be invested in India…

On March 2, a suspected U.S. drone strike inside Pakistan killed two Taliban militants in the country’s tribal region — the first drone attack in the country since Donald Trump became president. The strike ended a nine-month pause in the CIA’s long-running drone war in Pakistan, raising expectations that the Trump administration will increase the…

Deal part of US$65b package sealed during visit of King Salman Saudi Arabia’s key science and technology organisation has confirmed that one of the deals sealed during Saudi King Salman’s visit to China this month was an agreement to set up the first factory for Chinese hunter-killer aerial drones in the Middle East. IHS Jane’s…